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VOL. 58.
Governor Cleveland For
mally Notified of his
Nomination. .
ALBANY, N. Y.,July 29.—The com
mittee appointed to formally notify
Governor Cleveland of his nomination
for president met at 10 a. in., Colonel
Vilas presiding, and arrangements for
the notification were made, it being de
oided that the committed shout 1 visit
the governor at three p. m.
The guests were prompt on arriving
and when the members of the two com
mittees were provided for there was
very little extra space. The ceremony
took place in the large handsome main
parlor of the mansion. The ceremony
was brief, but exceediugly impressive.
The arriyal of the committees in a body
was the signal for concentration in the
main parlor. There the committee of
notification took positions ou the south
end of the room and the members of
the national committee on the north.
A space was reserved in the centre and
as soon as the preparations were com
pleted the governor entered through
the main hallway, standing with his
back to the flower banked mantel.
The ladies of the party stood near
the governor at his left. Ilis appear
ance at the doorway was the signal for
a hearty and spontaneous outburst of
handclapping which coutinued for sev
eral minutes. As soon as this had
subsided, Col. W. F. Vilas, of Wiscon
sin, chairman of the late democratic
national convention and of the notifi
cation committee, stepped slightly for
ward and addressing the governor in a
clear resonant tone and with marked
enthusiasm said :
s% Grover Cleveland, Governor of the
State of New York : These gentlemen
my associates here present, whose voice
I am honored with authority to utter,
were a committee apppointed by the
national democratic convention recent
ly assembled in Chicago and charged
with the grateful duty of acquainting
you officially, and in that solemu and
ceremonious manner which the dignity
and iropoi lance of the communications
demand, with the interesting result of
its deliberations, already knowu to you
through the ordinary channels of
news.
"Sir, that august body convened by
direct delegation from the democratic
people of the several states and terri
tories of the republic, and deliberating
under the witness of the greatest as
sembly of freemen ever gathered to
such a conference iu forethought of the
election which the constitution impos
es upon them to make during the cur
rent year, have nominated you to the
people of these United Sates to be their
president for the Dext ensuing term of
that great office, and with grave con
sideration of its exalted responsibilities
have con fidently invoked their suffrag
es to invest you with its functions.
Through this committee the conven
tion's high requirement is delivered
that you may accept that candidacy.
This choice carries with it profound
personal respect and admiration, but
it has been ra no manner the fruit of
those sentiments. The national dem
ocracy seeks a president not in compli
ment for what the man is, or reward
for what he has done, but in a just ex
pectation of what he will accomplish
as the true servaut of a free people, fit
for their lofty trust. Always of rao
mentus consequence, they conceive the
public exigency to be now of transcend
ent importance, that a laborious reform
in the administration as well as legisla
tion is imperatively necessary to the
prosperity and honor of the republic
and a competent chief magistrate must
be of unusual temper and power.
They have observed with attention
your executioa of the public trusts you
have held, especially of that with
which you are now so honorably invest
ed. Their reliance for the usefulness
of the service. They expect to exact
for the benefit of the nation upon the
evidence derived from the services you
have performed for the state of New
York. They invite the electors to
such proof of character and compe
tence to justify their confidence that in
the nation as heretofore in the state
the public business will be administer
ed with commensurate intelligence and
ability,with single hearted honesty and
fidelity and with resolute and daring
fearlessness which no faction, no com
bination, no power of wealth, no mis
taken clamor can dismay or qualify.
In the spirit of the wisdom and invok
ing the benediction of the Divine Crea
tor of Men, we challenge from the sov -
ereignity of this nation. His woids in
commendation and ratification of our
choice. 'Well done, thou good and
faithful servant, thou hast been faith
ful over a few things, I will make thee
ruler over many things.' In further
fulfillment of our duty the secretary
will present the written communica
tion signed by the committee."
Colonel Vilas was several times in-
MILLHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7., 1884.
ten upted by applause. At the close of
his remarks Mr. Nicholas M. Prince,of
Missouri, secretary of the committee,
read the following formal address, pre
pared by the committee :
NEW YORK CITY, July 28, 1884.--
To the Hun. Grover Cleveland, of New
York —Slß ; In accordance with a
custom befitting the nature of the com
munication the undersigned, represent
ee several states aiul territories of the
Union, were appointed a committee by
the national democratic convention
which assembled at Chicago on the Bth
day of the current month to perform
the pleasing office,which by this means
we have the honor to execute, of in
forming you ot your nomination as the
candidate of the democratic party in
the ensuing election for the ofiice of
president of the United States and the
declaration of the principles upon
which the democracy go before the
people with a hope of establishing and
maintaining them in the government
was made by the convention, and an
engrossed copy thereof i 3 submitted in
connection with this communication
for your consideration. We trust the
approval of your judgement will follow
an examination of this expression of o
pinion and policy, and upon the con
troversy now made up, we invite your
acceptance of the exalted leaders!)ip to
which you have been chosen. The e
lection of a presideut is an event of the
utmost importance to the people of
America; their prosperity, growth,
happiness, peace aud liberty, even may
depend upon its wise ordering. Your
unanimous nomination is proof that
the democracy believe your election
will most contribute to secure those
great objects. We assure you that in
the anxious responsibilities you must
assume as a candidate you will have
the steadfast and cordial support of
the friends of the cause you will repre
sent and in the execution of the duties
of the high ofiice which we confidently
expect the wisdom of the nation will
confer upon you, you may securely re
ly for approval and upon the patriot
ism, honor and intelligence of this free
people, we have the honor to he with
great respect."
The address is signed by W. F.
Vilas, of Wisconsin, president ; Nich
olas M. Bell, of Missouri, secretary,
and by forty-six members of the com
mittee representing thirty-eight states
and eight territories.
Governor Cleveland, who had stood
meanwhile an intentive listener, re
plied as follows :
"Jfr. ChcCirman and Gentlemen of the
Committee: Your formal announce
ment does not, of course, convey to me
the first information of the result of
the convention lately held by the dem
ocracy of the nation, and yet, when, as
I listen to your message and see-about
me representatives from all parts of the
land of the great party which,claiming
to be the party of the people, asks them
to entrust to it the administration of
their government and when I consider,
under the influence of the stern reali
ties which the present surroundings
create, that I have been chosen to rep
resent the plaus, purposes and policy of
the democratic party, lam profoundly
impressed by the solemnity of the occa
sion and by the responsibility of ray
position. Though I gratefully appre
siate it, I do not at this moment con
gratulate myself UDOU the distinguish
ed honor which has been conferred up
on me, because my mind is full of an
anxious desire to perform well the part
which has been assigned to me. Nor
do lat this moment forget that the
rights and interests of more than 50,
000,000 of my fellow citizens are in
volved in an effort to gain democratic
supremacy. This reflection presents to
my mind the consideration which more
than all others gives to the action of
my party in convention assembled its
most sober and serious aspect. The
party and its representatives which ask
to be entrusted at the hands of the
people with the keeping of what con
cerns their welfare and their safety
should only ask it with the full appre
ciation of the sacredness of the trust
and with a firm resolye to administer
it faithfully and well.
"I am a democrat becauso I believe
that this truth lies at the foundation of
PAPER FOR TUF, HOME CIRCLE.
Cleveland and Hendricks,
Democratic Candidates
FOR
PRESIDENT
AND
VICE PRESIDENT.
true democracy. I have kept the faith
because I believe, if rightly and fairly
adrainisteied and applied, democratic
doctrines and measures will insure the
happiness, contentment and prosperity
of the peoplo. If, in the contest upon
which we now enter, We steadfastly
hold to the underlying principles of Our
party creed, and at all times keep in
view the people's good, we shall be
strong because we are true to ourselves
and because the plain and independent
voters of the land will > seek by their
suffrages to compass their release from
party tyranny, where there should be
devotion to the people's interest. These
thoughts lend a consecration to our
cause and we go forth not merely to gain
a partisan advantage, but pledged to
give to those who trust us the utmost
benefits of an honest administration of
national affairs. No higher purpose or
motive can stimulate to supreme effort
or urge us to continuous aud earnest
labor and effective party organization.
Let us not fail iu this, and we may
confidently hope to reap the full reward
of patriotic services well performed.
I have thus called to mind some sim
ple truths, and trite though they are it
seems to merwe do well to dwell upon
them at this time. I shall soon,l hope,
signify in the usual formal manner my
acceptance of the nomination which
has been tendered to me. In the mean
time I gladly greet you all as co-work
ers in a noble cause."
The governor spoke extemporeously
and not without evidence of deep ear
r.estuess and feeling. He seemed to
realize the weight of responsibility
which rested upon his shoulders as the
standard bearer of the party. The ad
dress was not only a model one in
thought but was delivered with rare
grace and effect.
The congratulations that were show
ered upon him by the many distinguish
ed leaders of the party at the close were
sincere and hearty. After sometime
spent in 1 social interchanges, the doors
of the dining room were swung open
and refreshments partaken of. An iu
formal reception was held at the Fort
Orange club on Washington street late
in the afternoon.
MR. HENDRICKS' ABLE ADDRESS IN
RESPONSE TO THE FORMAL INFOR
MATION OF HIS NOMINATION
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,JU
LY 30TII.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee—l cannot realize that a man
could even, stand iu the presence of a
committee representing a more august
body of men than which you represent.
In the language of another the conven
tion was large in numbers, august in
culture and patriotic in sentiments,and
may I not add to that, that because of
power and greatness and the virtue of
the party which it represented,in every
respect a very great convention. [Ap
plause.] The delegates came from all
the states and territories and I believe,
too,from the District of Columbia.(Ap
plause.) They came clothed with au
thority to express judgement and opin
ion on all those quest ions which are not
settled by constitutional law for the
purpose of passing upon those questions
and selecting a ticket for the people.
That convention assembled. They de
cided upon the principles that they
would adopt as a platform. They se
lected candidates that they would pro
pose to the party their support and
that the convention work was theirs.
I have not reached the period when it
is proper for me to consider the strength
and force of the statements made in
the platform. It is enough for me to
know that it comes at your hands fiom
that convention addressed to my patri
otic deyotiou to the democratic party.
[Applause.]
I appreciate the honor that is done
me. I need not question that, but at
the same time that. I accept the honor
from you and from the convention, I
feel that the duties and responsibilities
of the office rest upon me also. I know
that sometimes it is understood that
this particular office, that of vice presi
dent, does not involve much responsi
bility, and as a general thing that is so,
nut sometimes it comes to represent
very great responsibilities and it may
be so in the near future, for at this
i time the seuate of the United States
stauds almost equally divided between
the two great parties, and it may be
that these two great parties shall so ex
actly differ that the vice presideut of
the United States shall liaye to decide
upon questions of law by the exercise
of the casting vote. [Applause.J The
responsibility would thf n become very
great. It would not then be the re
sponsibility of representing a state or a
district. It would be the responsibility
of representing the whole country, and
that the vote when thus cast should bo
in obedience to the just expectations
and requirements of the people of the
United States. It might be,gentlemen,
that upon another occasion the respons
ibility would attach to this office, it
might occur that under circumstances
of some difficulty. I don't think it will
be the next election, but it may occur
under circumstances of some difficulty
The president of the seriate will have
to take his part in counting of the elec
toral vote and also allow me to say that
the duty is not to be discharged in obe
dience to any set of men or to any par
ty,but iu obedience to a higher authori
ty. (Applause.)
Gentlemen, you haye referred to the
fact that I am honored by this nomina
tion in a very special degree. I accept
the suggestion that in this candidacy I
will represent the right of the people to
choose their own rulers, that right that
is above, that lies beneath ail, for if the
I>eople aie denied the right to choose
their own oflieers according to their
own judgement what shall become of
the rights of the people at all ? What
shall become of free government if the
people select not their officers ? Shall
they control the laws, their administra
tion and their execution Y So that in
suggesting that in this candidacy I rep
resent that right of the people. As you
have suggested a great honor has de
volyed upon me by the confide nee of the
convention. As soon as it may be con
venient and possible to do so I will ad
dress you more formally in respect to
the letter you haye given me. I thank
you gentlemen. [Applause.]
The Origin of Dixie.
On a Saturday night in 1859, when
Dan Emmett was a member of Bryant's
Minstrels, New York, Dan Bryant
came to him and said : "Dan, can't
you get us up a 'walk around ?' I
want something new and lively for
Monday night." Dan went to work,
and by Sunday afternoon he bad the
words commencing "I wish I was in
Dixie." The expression was not
Southern, but appeared among the cir
cus people of the North. In early fall,
when nipping frosts would overtake
the tented wanderers, the boys would
think of the warmth of the South, and
the common expression would be,
"Well, I wish I was in Dixie." This
gave the catch-line, and the rest of the
song was origiual. Ou Monday morn
ing it was rehearsed and highly com
mended, and at night a crowded house
caught up the refrain and half of them
went home singing Dixie. The song
became the rage, and W. W. New
eomb's Buckley's Minstrels and others
gave Dan $5 each for the privilege of
using it. Mr. Werlean wrote to Em
mett to secure the copyright ; but
without waiting for a reply, published
it with words by a Mr. Peters. Pond,
of New York, secured it of Emmett
for S6OO ; but Werlean sold thousands
of copies without giving him a nickel.
Not only was Emmett robbed of the
profits of his song,but the authorship of
it. Pond brought the matter before a
music publishers' convention, and set
tled the authorship ; but Dan reap
ed no benefit from this tardy jus
tice.
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NO. 31.
AN ESSAY ON SLEEP.
U.K. Munkittrlck, In Puck.
We beliove it was Sancho Pedro who
thought an all-wool Messing should be
bestowed on the individual who first
invented, filed a caveat for, and pat
ented sleep.
This leads us to believe that Sancho
had a level head, and was a man whose
opinion was entitled to some respect.
Take a hen, for instance, and she
will fall asleep right in the middle of a
dusty road. And there that hen will
sleep for hours and never tnoye, except
to skin her eye occasionally to see if
there is any danger of being run oyer.
And if she sees a wagon coming, she
will pretend not to see it, and she will
sleep right on until the wagou-wlieel\
is within a few feet of her. And then
she will suddenly jmnp up in a manner
to show how annoyed she is, and stapd
on the side of the road a.id look at you.
in mingled indignation and astonish
ment.
A dog will lie right in a doorway
where people are traveling back and
forth, and sleep for hours. He knows
that if he is stepped on he will be hurt,
and that if some one comes along and
kicks him out of the doorway he will
be bruised and made to feel uncomfort
able. Yet, there he will lie and sleep,
and dream the balmy dreams of inno
cent and unsophisticated doghoocL
And, like the cat, he will lie close to
the stoye, and sleep by the hour, and
never open his eyes unless he hears the
carving kuife being sharpened. And
if the kettle boils over on him, oi a lot
of hot grease flies out of the pan, and
takes handfuls of hair out of him, and
leaves him looking like a crazy-quilt,
yet will he return to the stove and
make that his favorite sleeping-place
again. A dog is so fond of sleeping
when burglars are in the room at the
dead of night.
In this respect the dog is not unlike
the policeman, who is perhaps the great
est sleeper we have. He is so fond of
sleep and its refreshing influence that
he will climb noiselessly into a murky
coal-box and stretch himself out ou'tbe
coal, and fall into a sweet, long doze
that nothing can break. There may be
a murder within ten yards of where he
is lying, and the cries of the murdeien
may be sharp enough to cut right
through the toughest sinews of the
toughest spring-chicken that was ever
put on a table ; but the policeman will
sleep right on, his S3ul made rosy by
the gentlest of gentle visions, and nev
er open bis eyes until the last star has
melted in the sunlight.
When a man is traveling in a rail
way-train, he pushes aside the latest
novel that is thrust at him by the en
teiprising train-boy,and closes his eyes
upon the delightful landscapes that the
railroad finds it profitable to advertise,
lays the back of his head on the seat,
draws his hat over his eyes, and makes
every effort to get into dreamland.
And, in spite of the jouncing and jolt
ing of the train, he does fall a9leep,and
for the time is utterly unconscious o*
bis debts and other tribulations.
And there he sleep 3 the sleep that is
not disturbed by the bell, the whistle
or the brakeman. It is is just the kind
of rosy sleep that he can not get in a
sleeper ; for when be stretches out in a
sleeper, or rather a waker,he does noth
ing but roll and toss about all night
long. The only time be feels like
sleeping is when it is time to rise in
the morning. Then he is sleepy* be
cause he has exhausted himself by the
rolling. After he has rolled in the
sleeper all night, he could easily fall a
eleep on an osage-orange hedge, or
barbed fence.
What is pleasanter than a good sleep
on a cold Winter morning, when you
know it is .time to get up ? Nothing
that can be named surpasses the pleas
ure. Every fresh knock and 'Get lip,
now, the breakfast is getting cold, and
it is after eight!' makes the bed seem
more comfortable, as you draw your
head uuder the covers,and gather your
self into a ball for a fresh nap of just a
few seconds more.
And then there is the Sunday morn
ing sleep, which is about the sweetest
of all sweet sleeps. Because then you
have plenty of time, and are not hamp
ered by the bells and whistles that ring
and blow on week-days to let mortal
man know that it is time to rise and
proceed to earn his daily cake. On Sun
day morning you may close your shut
ters, and haul down the shades, and
make the room so dark that you may
sleep right along until your head is
small enough to tit your hat, and then
it will'be about three in the afternoon,
and time for breakfast.
Swinging in a hammock out among
the honeysuckles, or between two old
apple-trees, on a quiet afternoon, is not
the worst way in the world of getting
into Jslumberland. As you lie there
looking up through the branches at the
fleecy clouds floating along, and try to
make fanciful figures cut of them, such
as snow-men smoking pipes, and patri
archs dancing on smol>e, and beautiful
Circassian women floating about on va-
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pory couches, etc., you are lulled
sleep by the hum of. insects, and the
song of birds, and the airy rustle of
the leaves, stirred by the breeze that
keeps you in a gentle swaying motion.
And when you wake you hay© the im
pression of the netting buried about an
inch deep in your face,* and leave the
impression of your li§ad on the ground
just where you landed when you fall
out. • * 1 > >
And then there Is the sleep of boy
hood. The sleep that every man would
like to sleep over again. The sweet,tin
disturbed sleep in which the boy
dreams about the orchard in which the
reddest apples grow ; and the best re
ceipt for bird-lime ; and the beet way
to swap— 4 fen seein's'— the handsome
and attractive knife- handle with no
blades in it for the superior knife of a
companion. The gentle ten-hour-with
out-stopping sleep, wherein he lives his
exploits over again, and falls out of the
cherry-tree, and is chased by the farm
er, and goes over a cascade on a raft;
and fires a gun into h hornets' nest,and
sets off iire-crackers close to the old
Shanghai rooster. Ah 1 What are so
sweet as those dreams of boyhood ?
Tender dreams, that are only disturbed ►>.
when the boy is lifted out of bed by tlie
ear,and hurried down-stairs to chop the
wood that he forgot to chap last night.
There is nothing on earth so sweet, un
less it be the sleep of the baby ; because
the baby can sleep all night and all day •
and never has to get up. And the baby
can never haye unpleasant things of
this world. And if the baby wakes up,
and cries or becomes tired out, it is im
mediately put to sleep again. It dosn't '
have to go to sleep itself,but is actually
put to sleep. And then every effort is
made to keep it asleep as long as poss
ible. Ah, if we could only be put to
sleep, in this cruel work-a-day world,
and have some one to lie around and al
low no one to come near and disturb
our repose—then would the hackman
lie down with the tourist, the plumber
with the landlord. But if we should
eyer haye to lie put to sleep, we should
prefer to have it done through the me
dium of a good old brandy eggnogg.
Kisses to Grow on.
She was only a baby, bnt she held
up her sweet red lips, shut the bright
eyes and went the rounds from one
member of the family to another, re
peating the phrase she had just heard
from her yonng mother's lips,
"Three kisses, and one to grow on."
They caught her up,tbe darling, and
kissed and kissed her fair baby face,
pulled the soft curls,squeezed the dim
pled shoulders, and followed her every
movement with wistful, worshiping
eyes, until she. came to the sour,disap
pointed member of the family, whose
words were all hollow, and dolls stuff
ed with sawdust. She tiptoed up to
the stern, bearded face, and put a fat,
chubby little hand on each unyielding
knee.
"Three kisses, and one to grow on."
'What does aH this tomfoolery
mean ?' iuquired the gruff, grumpy
voice.
'Baby is three years old to-day,'
said the young mother, feeling how
hard it is to explain a simpie, foolish
custom that has no particular mean
ing, 'and so we give her a kiss for
each year and one to grow on. But
you needn't kiss her Uncle Ben, if
you don't want to.'
What was it the old man saw in
the limpid eyes lifted to his t —a vis
ion of the green fields and still waters
of paradise ? or did some prescient
knowledge possess him,that he caught
her up in his arms as he had never
done before, and kissed her again and
again ?
'Not want to kiss her ?' he said, in
a broken voice, 'why,l should as soon
think of refusing to kiss an angel from
heaven. There 1 pet; there! and there 1
Now may you grow on this one even
to the heights of beaven—never short *
of their standard, little one. That is
the old man's prayer.'
Three kisses and one to grow on;'
three short and beautiful years, and
now—
Her age I cannot tell,
:For tbey reckon not by months and
years
Where she has gone to dwell'
But I often wonder if we would not
all reach nearer the gates of paradise
if we had more kisses to giow on.
'To the height of the sinless angels
The little one has grown.'
Oh! great family of humanity,learn
all your weary, wandering ones up
the divine heights by kisses. They are
stronger than blows ; they have no
stings like bitter words;they are bless
ed memories that blossom in our
crown of thorns when those whom we
kissed have gone from us a little way
beyond tears and kisses; grown on
the precious nourishment into the
higher life, in the city whose builder
and maker is God.